Su, Y. (1993) The contribution of Scottish covenant thought to the discussions of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1648) and its continuing significance to the Marrow controversy (1717-1723), Unpublished PhD thesis. University of Glamorgan.

Abstract:

This dissertation aims to examine the development and significance
of covenant doctrine in the Scottish Church during the struggles of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This development is examined in
its political, historical, social, theological and ecclesiastical
context.
The idea of covenant is central in both the Old and New Testaments;
it mostly denotes God's relationship with his people as distinct from
his relationship to the world. For the Covenanters, it became the
central hermeneutical key for interpreting Scripture. Covenant theology
had been familiar to the Church of Scotland for some time; the Scottish
Covenanters adopted and applied it rigorously to their lives and
situation they confronted. They believed on the basis of covenant that
Scotland should be free in matters both religious and political; church
leaders sought to place the whole nation under a covenant relationship
to God. The covenant concept was the central concern of Scottish
theology from 1643 to 1723 and was a theme zealously preached during the
century after John Knox's Reformation of Scotland in 1560. It had a
powerful impact in promoting and consolidating the Protestant cause.
Unfortunately, covenant thought also gave rise to conflict within the
Church of Scotland.